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DR Congo starts Ebola vaccination campaign

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eMediNexus    16 February 2021

The Democratic Republic of Congo has initiated an Ebola vaccination campaign in the east following an outbreak in early February, stated the WHO.

DR Congo had reported four confirmed cases of Ebola since a resurgence declared on 7 February in Butembo. Health workers at a medical center, where the first Ebola patient was treated, have been the first to receive the vaccination. Guinea, in West Africa, has also announced an Ebola outbreak.

A previous Ebola outbreak in DR Congo was declared to have been over in June 2020. Nearly 8,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine, the first Ebola vaccine to receive the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in December 2019, are being used in the vaccination campaign… (BBC, February 15, 2021)

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